New Year’s Resolutions for 2009

Posted on: Friday, December 26th, 2008

Here are a few of my goals as an SEO for next year, among others. 9 resolutions for 2009:

1.) Stop wasting time on Twitter.

Regardless of what Tweetwasters tells me, I do waste quite a lot of time just reading nonsense from others.

2.) Write more posts that don’t consist of a lists.

Here is a perfect example of what it’d be good to do less of. But, it’s just so much easier to read!

3.) Stop hating on developers who make mistakes.

I have created an extensive guide on how to avoid the most common mistakes and just hope that it will be enough to avoid future annoyances.

4.) Figure out how to explain what I do to my girlfriend’s extended family.

Currently, I end up just telling everyone that I “make websites better”:
> What do you do?
>> I’m an “S-E-O” (pause) I help websites show up for keywords that people use to search for their products on the Internet (pause) I make websites better.
> Oh, okay!

5.) Meet more SEO’s in my area

I am organizing a Tweet up soon. All real SEO’s in NYC beware, you will be invited.

6.) Stop looking at the cached, text-only version of every site I visit while I browse SERP’s.

This usually just aggravates me so much because I see what SEO possibilities a site is missing out on, but feels oh so good when I see that the competition is screwing themselves over.

7.) Learn how to use jquery.

I would feel better telling our programmers what to do if I actually knew exactly what I was talking about and what was possible with jquery concerning SEO.

8.) Truly start looking at ALL 33 other factors besides ranking.

The problem is that the only thing client’s want to know about is whether they are on page 1 or not, which brings me to my final New Year’s resolution…

9.) Teach my clients something about SEO.

Demonstrate to them why it does not matter if they are on page 1 if they are getting no conversions and that SEO takes time for a reason when done right.

WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS AS SEO’S?

BTW: The layout of my blog is messed up again and I don’t have time to fix it.

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